Machine for laying on veneers straight or curved



CASPER-KITTINGER, OF MASSILLON, OI-IIO.

MACHINE FOR LAYING QN VENEERS STRAIGHT 0R QUEVED.

To all whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, CASPER KITTINGER, of Massillon, in the countyk ofStark and State of Ohio, have invented. a new and Improved Mode ofVeneering with Mahogany or Any other Kind of Vood, Both for Straight andCircular l/Vo-rk of All Kinds and Descriptions of Moldings, Drawers,Fronts, &c., reference being had to the ac'- companying drawings, whichmake a part of the description, in which- Figure l is a perspective viewand Fig. 2 a transverse section.

To enable others skilled in the art to make and use my invention, I willproceed to describe its construction and operation.

I take a piece of two inch plank b, of some hard wood, say six or eightfeet long and one foot wide, which I make use of for a nut, throughwhich the screws o, o, o, 0, 0, o, o, &c., say from one to forty pass. Ithen take three or more pieces of hard wood a, a, a of two inch plank,say two feet long and one foot wide, through each end of which, as shownat d, d, I pass a screw bolt to prevent them from splitting by force ofthe screws 0, 0, &c., when in operation. I then make a mortise througheach of those pieces for the plank Z9 to slide into or through, as shownat h. One of these is placed at each end and one in the middle of theplank b. I then make another mortise in each of the same pieces as shownat 5, i, i to admit of the rods or bolts c, c, secured with nuts f, f,and to admit of the setting of therods c, c, to any width of work; thesemortises should be lined with plates of metal, those rods'or bolts maybe made of wood or iron and will require to be the same length as theplank ZJ. I then take a band jot sheet iron, leather, or cloth, two endsor sides of which I make fast to the rods c, c, either by nailing on orscrewing around. I then take a piece of plank of such length and widthas will accommodate the workto be veneered and place it on the ends ofthe screws, on which plank It I place the work la, Z, to be veneeredover which the cloth or band passes. I then turn the screws which pressthe work sufficiently tight against the bands to produce the desiredeffect. l

What I claim as my invention is rlhe combination of the screw or screwsand band when constructed substantially as herein described, using forthat purpose any metal or other substance which will produce theintended effect; Fig. 2 a cross section of the machine; a, one of theblocks; bed piece through which the screws o, 0, pass; cl, d, d, screwsto prevent block a from splitting; z', mortise for rods c, c, to workback and forth in; y', the band; 7L a plank on which to place the workto be veneered; g, a plank over which the handy' passes to press thework.

CASPER KITTINGER. Witnesses:

JOHN WALTER. HENRY GADAIs.

